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Ali Rabii

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Ali Rabei
Head of Center for Strategic Studies
In office 29 April 2021 – 23 October 2021
President	Hassan Rouhani
Preceded by	Hesamodin Ashna
Succeeded by	Mohammad Sadegh Khayatian
Spokesperson of the Government of Iran
In office 30 May 2019 – 3 August 2021
President	Hassan Rouhani
Preceded by	Mohammad Bagher Nobakht
Succeeded by	Ali Bahadori Jahromi
Minister of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare
In office 15 August 2013 – 8 August 2018
President	Hassan Rouhani
Preceded by	Asadollah Abbasi
Succeeded by	Mohammad Shariatmadari
Personal details
Born	(1955-12-06) 6 December 1955 (age 68) Tehran, Iran
Political party	Islamic Labour Party Worker House
Spouse	Narges Hosseinzadeh ​ ​ (m. 1981; died 2007)​ [1]
Children	4[2][3]
Residence(s)	Tehran, Iran
Alma mater	University of Tehran
Website	official website

Ali Rabei (Persian: علی ربیعی, born 6 December 1955), also known by his nickname, Ebad,^[4] is an Iranian politician and former intelligence officer. He served as the Minister of Labor from 2013 to 2018. He was an adviser to the former President Mohammad Khatami from 1997 to 2005. On 4 August 2013, he was nominated as Minister of Labor to the incumbent cabinet by Hassan Rouhani. He is also a Payame Noor University professor.

Early life and education[edit]

Ali Rabei was born on 6 December 1955 in Javadieh, Tehran. He graduated from the University of Tehran with a degree in state management in the 1970s and became a technician at the General Motors factory in Tehran. He was arrested by SAVAK in a labor strike in Ekbatan.

Political career[edit]

Following the Iranian Revolution, Rabei became a member of the Islamic Republican Party and its labor branch head. Then, Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan appointed him as a member of labor law codification, a membership he held until the present. He is one of the closest people to Mohammad Khatami. After Khatami's election, Rabei was one of his advisors for social affairs. He was also Khatami's representative at the Ministry of Intelligence in 2001. He was also the head of the Presidential Secretariat and executive committee and Homeland Security Committee Propaganda of Supreme National Security Council under Hassan Rouhani from 2002 to 2005. After the election of Rouhani as president, he was nominated for the Minister of Labor. He was confirmed by the parliament on 15 August 2013.

Works[edit]

• "Sociological changes in value in Iran", 1993
• "Sociology, political corruption in the third world countries", 1996
• "National Security Studies", 1997
• "The crux of the civil administration", 1998
• "Knowledge management in organizations", 2001
• "Knowledge management processes and procedures", 2008
• "Risk and Crisis Management", 2013

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